--- title: The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cr… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: ‘Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears. Who acts: little tailor, Boy, I. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Ta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/140/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/) / 140 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, sentence 140 The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: ‘Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears. **Who acts:** little tailor, Boy, I · **What happens:** pretend, be, begin, cry out, make, rap · **To what, where:** clear voice, pantaloons, me, yard measure, ears This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Valiant Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little tailor, Boy, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:19:140 # text = The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: ‘Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tailor tailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl:relcl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 doublet doublet NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 pantaloons pantaloon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 rap rap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 43 over over ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | past · progressive | the little tailor | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the little tailor *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **begin** | past | the little tailor | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the little tailor *not said here* | | | a clear voice | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | Boy | the pantaloons | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary pantaloon=Product | | 6 | **rap** | future | I | the yard measure | | your ears | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/141/) - ↑ back to [The Valiant Little Tailor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/19/)